Crossing Anthology

I am Lemmour Zoxus, formerly known as “Metal Seth”. After my sacrifice to aid my friends, I died from an intense electric shock. Before I knew it I awoke in the sight of a strange necrokinetic. The mysterious man claimed to have known my friends so I trusted him. He helped heal my wounds and repair my armor suit, I asked him where my friends could be and he told me that they’d be in a town in Virginia called “Winchester”. So that’s where I’m headed, to Winchester.

I was all alone on my travel, just me and my memories. I couldn’t remember a lot. I could remember as far as my interactions with my former enslaver, King Zoxus. I remember the hypnosis he put me into, to follow his every command. Luckily, my mind and my friends helped me overcome it. That freedom was short lived, King had returned for revenge in a massive airship. To aid my friends I sent out an Electro-magnetic pulse wave to temporarily corrupt King’s airship and give them enough time to board and do more damage to him. Those were the memories I had; everything about my life before I was put in hypnosis was for some reason gone.

After months of searching for the town of Winchester, I finally found it. It was a rather ghetto-ish town but also has a sort of early European renaissance feel to it, a little out in the country. It has a bit of everything.  As I walked around through the town, I stumbled across a horse stable close to a farm. After observing the horses for a matter of seconds, I had some kind of mental image pop in my head. A silhouette of some sort, I ignored it. I walked into a suburban neighborhood, and then out of nowhere, a powerful gust of air throws me into a picket fence. I looked up and there was one of my old friends, Eric using his air manipulation powers. I asked him,

“Eric!?... What the hell was that for?”

“Oh! You’re Metal Seth! I thought you were regular Seth. What are you doing here? You’re dead, at least you were…”

I looked up at him with a smirk,

“Not anymore. How have you been?”

“I’ve been better.”

With concern and curiosity I asked him,

“What’s your beef with regular Seth? And where is everyone else?”

“They all left this planet through a door that only comes for one week every seven years, in search of  the regular Seth, who for some reason went in the moment he saw it, even knowing what it was. That’s why I attacked you, I thought you were regular Seth and I thought he was here this whole time without letting anyone know. I was so enraged because, I don’t think we’ll ever see the rest of the team again.”

Seth vanished; the team goes after him, and a seven year door? I must have missed a lot after I died.

“Who all went in?”

“Jonah, Cole, Del, Metal Jonah, and Jasmyn; who’s new to the team. It’s not like they’d be able to return even when the door comes back in another seven years. The door is a one-way only.”

I hesitated to say what was about to spit out of my lips. But it had to be done.

“How’s about this, I’ll use my jetpack to fly into space, and find the team.”

It may sound stupid but with me being an Atevian, or “alien” to the humans, I don’t need oxygen to survive.

“You’d do that?”

“Yes.”

Without another word my jetpack blasted me into the depths of space. Flying through the stars and dodging asteroids at supersonic speeds.